The iTV Doctor Is In!: NBC Universal's Interactive TV Olympics
March 18, 2010 — itvt
I've enjoyed all the NBC Olympic coverage, particularly the interactive channel on Cablevision...
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Video Interview with Gary Lauder, Chairman, ActiveVideo Networks
March 15, 2010 — ScreenPlays
Gary Lauder talks about iTV, prospects for app developers and the impact of the Web on TV...
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IPTV Future Should See Both Managed and Open Interactive Platforms
March 08, 2010 — TWICE
Ultimately, much of the horsepower being installed in CE devices, set-tops and TVs will move out of the home and into the cloud so that manufacturers no longer have to make risky hardware investments in innovating their products and features and consumers have less risk of purchasing products that will become outdated in a few years...
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Innovations in Olympics Services Highlight New Content Strategies
March 05, 2010 — ScreenPlays Magazine
The application of ActiveVideo's technology in a live event scenario marks another step in MSOs' growing embrace of the vendor's CloudTV system, which now reaches over five million households, notes Jeremy Edmunds, director of business development and customer engineering at ActiveVideo.
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Cablevision to Deliver Internet Content to Set-Tops
February 24, 2010 — Light Reading Cable
Cablevision isn't giving any nitty-gritty technical details at this point, but this smells a lot like the technology it's already got in play from ActiveVideo Networks Inc. , which uses a process to deliver all manner of Web apps to the set-top -- pretty much what Cablevision appears to have in mind here.
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Cablevision Launches Web-to-TV Product
February 24, 2010 — Broadcasting & Cable
Cablevision isn't disclosing details of what exact technology it is using the relay service. But the operator has used technology from ActiveVideo Networks, which has a system for bringing Web content to a TV through the existing cable infrastructure, to deliver interactive content including a mosaic channel of NBC Universal programming it is currently running during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Advanced Ads: 3 Reasons Why the Wait is Over
February 22, 2010 — Multichannel News
Dynamic VOD ads are the “lowest-hanging fruit” for advanced ad delivery, agreed ActiveVideo Networks director of business development and customer engineering Jeremy Edmonds.
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Interactive TV at the 2010 Winter Olympics
February 14, 2010 — Light Reading's Steve Donohue
YouTube video of ActiveVideo's Olympic application deployed at Cablevision. The demo is from Light Reading's Steve Donohue...
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ActiveVideo enhances Cablevision’s Olympics coverage
February 12, 2010 — CED
Cablevision Systems and NBC Universal are going to provide Olympics coverage that will include interactive applications powered by ActiveVideo...
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Winter Games Go Interactive… for Some TV Viewers
February 12, 2010 — Light Reading Cable
The Oceanic system — long a test bed for unique interactive TV products like pizza deliveries on demand — is the only Time Warner system offering interactive functions to subscribers for the Olympics...
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Cablevision Skates Out Interactive TV Mosaic For Olympics
February 12, 2010 — Multichannel News
Cablevision previously launched mosaic channels for news, sports and kids' channels using ActiveVideo's headend-based interactive TV system.
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Cablevision Provides Interactive, Multiplatform Olympic Coverage
February 11, 2010 — Broadcasting & Cable
Cablevision will offer its digital cable customers an interactive channel dedicated to the Vancouver Games. The iTV channel, which uses technology from San Jose, Calif.-based ActiveVideo Networks, will feature a mosaic of small video images that provide one-click, instant access to coverage on NBCU's various networks along with supplemental Olympics content...
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Cable Ops to Deliver Online, Interactive Olympic Video
February 11, 2010 — Cable360
Cablevision Systems will be providing interactive TV coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics to all of its iO TV digital cable customers with a set-top box. Cablevision's interactive coverage will be powered by ActiveVideo Networks...
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Navigation Guide, Advertising Universes Aligning
February 01, 2010 — CED
“If you treat the advertising and branding opportunities as content, that’s what advanced navigation systems are bringing to the table, and ads are a piece of that content,” said Jeremy Edmonds, director of product management for ActiveVideo Networks, a player in the advanced advertising space...
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TAG Interactive TV Games Channel Tops Major Linear Channels in Daily Viewing Averages
January 27, 2010 — itvt
TNS STB Data Show Channel Retains Viewers for Longer than Disney, CNN, Nickelodeon and Others...
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Trailer Park Partners with ActiveVideo CloudTV Platform
January 27, 2010 — Studio Daily
ActiveVideo Networks, a cloud-based interactive television company, and Trailer Park, an entertainment marketing agency, announced that Trailer Park’s recently formed Advanced Content Group (TPAC) has become the first major content developer to partner with the ActiveVideo® CloudTV™ platform currently in close to 5 million homes...
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ActiveVideo Signs Up Trailer Park as First Major Content Developer for its CloudTV Platform
January 25, 2010 — itvt
Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, and entertainment marketing agency, Trailer Park, announced last week that Trailer Park's recently formed Trailer Park Advanced Content (TPAC) group has become the first major content developer to officially embrace ActiveVideo's flagship CloudTV platform...
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Trailer Park Partners with ActiveVideo Networks
January 21, 2010 — CED
Trailer Park has signed on to become the first major content developer to leverage ActiveVideo Networks’ cloud-based interactive TV platform...
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ActiveVideo Expands Relationship with TAG Networks
January 21, 2010 — Broadband Gear
"Historically, games have been one of the real drivers of interactive service adoption," Henry Choy, VP, business development for ActiveVideo Networks, says...
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ActiveVideo: Bringing Cable Platforms into Modern Era
January 20, 2010 — Silicon Angle
Over the years the main issues to any sort of deployments and adoption of ITV over the years have been ridiculously disparate systems between providers, lack of industry standards, as well as a severe lack in computing capabilities on the set-top-box side of things...
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ActiveVideo Networks Helping Blockbuster on Demand Deliver a Converged Experience
January 14, 2010 — VideoNuze
Amid all of the attention Netflix has been receiving for embedding its streaming software in one consumer electronics device after another (the Wii just yesterday) and its recent Warner Bros. deal, it's been easy to overlook the fact that Blockbuster has been getting some online traction itself...
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TV vs. Cable
January 13, 2010 — The Media Wonk
Yet for all the hoopla over 3D, the really important TV story out of CES was the explosion of embedded applications on Internet-capable HDTVs and Blu-ray players for bringing over-the-top (i.e. Internet-delivered) video into the living room...
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ActiveVideo Networks Expands Partnership with TAG Networks
January 11, 2010 — itvt
Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, announced last week that it has expanded its relationship with its long-term partner, TAG Networks, in order to extend enhanced gaming experiences to broadband-connected consumer electronics devices...
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CES 2010: Hands on with ActiveVideo’s CloudTV
January 08, 2010 — High-Def Digest
ActiveVideo isn’t a content provider, and they’re not selling a set-top box. You can think of them more as a distribution network like Boxee. The difference is that with ActiveVideo, you don’t need an external box or HTPC. You just need to access the cloud...
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CES: Hook up Internet TV without getting a new box
January 08, 2010 — L.A. Times
Software like ActiveVideo and Dreamer tap into the hardware you probably already have, like a cable box or Blu-ray player, to connect your TV to the Web...
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ActiveVideo Networks in Deal to Provide Blockbuster with Cloud-Based User Interface for VOD and EST
January 07, 2010 — itvt
Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, announced an agreement with Blockbuster, Wednesday, that it says is designed to enhance the consumer VOD and electronic sell-through (EST) experience of the latter's Blockbuster On Demand service across multiple connected platforms...
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ActiveVideo's Blockbuster
January 07, 2010 — Cable Digital News
ActiveVideo Networks Inc.'s foray into the realm of consumer electronics got a big boost from Blockbuster Inc. today. The big video honcho will use ActiveVideo's cloud-based platform to pipe in a user interface that will display its VoD service offering for broadband-connected TVs and set-tops...
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ActiveVideo forges deal with Blockbuster, expands relationship with Tag
January 07, 2010 — CED
ActiveVideo, which provides “cloud”-based services in networks, has a new agreement in place with Blockbuster and an expanded relationship with Tag Networks.
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Blockbuster Inks Deal With ActiveVideo
January 06, 2010 — Multichannel News
Blockbuster will use ActiveVideo Networks' interactive video-delivery platform to provide Web-based interface features to the Blockbuster On Demand movie service across multiple connected platforms...
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Blockbuster Upgrades On Demand Navigation
January 06, 2010 — Home Media Magazine
Blockbuster Inc.’s move toward digital distribution took another step forward Jan. 6 when the Dallas-based No. 1 DVD rental service said it inked a deal with ActiveVideo Networks to improve its nascent video-on-demand (VOD) and electronic sellthrough user interfaces...
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Consumer Devices Head for the Clouds
January 04, 2010 — What's Your Tech
With the New Year upon us and with the fabulous toy store that is CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) about to open this week, there’s a lot of talk, predictions, speculations and even a bit of hands-on physical reality being bandied about in the techno prognostication industry...
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